How much did WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE grant in FY2024?

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE reported 27 grants totaling $6,309,683 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE based?

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE is based in MT.

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE

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· Public charity

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE

To support the charitable and educational activities (within the meaning of the internal revenue code section 501(c)(3)) of the WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE councils (worc) a section 501(c)(4) organization, as permitted by the treasury.

$6.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$2.9M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

mineoil gascoaltransitionsfoodvoices table

2019

homegrown prosperitywildcoallow incomeincome organizingoil gastransitions

2020

tribalinfrastructurecoaltransitionslow incomeincome organizingoil gas

2021

transitionslow incomeincome organizingdonor tablefoodvoices table

2022

rural powerlow incomeincome organizingoil gasfooddonor tablevoices table

2023

rural powercampaignsdonor tablevoices table

2024

better skywman-ienincreasedwildrural powercampaignsvote

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k8 grants · $178k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
$250k+4 grants · $4.1M

$80,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS$2,949,164
NORTH DAKOTA NATIVE VOTE$552,178
NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL$341,500
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES$250,000
POWDER RIVER BASIN RESOURCE COUNCIL$200,000
DAKOTA RESOURCE COUNCIL$177,500
OREGON RURAL ACTION$177,000
WESTERN COLORADO ALLIANCE$172,000
MONTANA WOMEN VOTE$142,000
DAKOTA RURAL ACTION$120,000
ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND$100,000
BIG SKY FIFTY FIVE PLUS$100,000
WESTERN NATIVE VOICE EP$99,500
IDAHO ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCIL$80,000
CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT$60,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$36M · 31 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$36M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+146%

Still filing today

90%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

WO
Western Org of Resource Counc
8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +242% · 98% of their budget
NP
Northern Plains Resource Co
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +49% · 28% of their budget
DR
Dakota Resource Council
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +204% · 71% of their budget

Funded once

KC
Kentucky Coalitiongraduated
one grant, 2022 · $205k · revenue +56%
GC
Georgia Conserv Voters Ed Fdgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +146%
PJ
Peoples Justice Councilgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +372%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Montana Conservation Voters Inc

Montana conservation voters works to protect our clean air, clean water, public lands and democracy.

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Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc

In its 10th year Upper Missouri Waterkeeper expanded its science-based advocacy efforts protecting clean water, and focused on using the law to ensure accountability for cleaning up polluted waters. Among the more notable successes was the…

Education

Montana Freshwater Partners Inc

To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.

Environment

Montana Policy Action Inc

To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy

Social Science

Park County Environmental Council

PCEC works with our community to safeguard the land, water, wildlife, and people of Yellowstone's northern gateway through grassroots organizing and community advocacy.

Environment

Nw Energy Coalition

NWEC leads a broad alliance advancing affordable, equitable clean energy. We envision a carbon-free system providing reliable energy, restoring natural resources, protecting salmon, supporting communities, and prioritizing decarbonization,…

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Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

Working Montanans

Working Montanans' mission is to advocate for an economy that works for working people and other critical issues.

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Montanans for Choice

Montanans for Choice works to advance gender equity, sexual health, and reproductive freedom through public education, communications, and advocacy.

Civil Rights

Alternative Energy Resources Org

Grassroots and statewide aero promotes a more sustainable montana for all, working at the intersection of renewable energy, stewardship agriculture, and community food systems. our nich is providing practical, solution-based education that…

Environment

Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations

Environment

Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Conservation Voters and the most unlike its peers is Center for Common Ground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/48

the rest of the field

715/9,924

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/47

Grantees still filing

36/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,192,485Environment$6,805,200Community Improvement$5,254,008Civil Rights$2,028,681Public Benefit$1,281,410Education$1,252,600Human Services$505,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PatagoniaorgCA38.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · The New World Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · A Better Big Sky · New Economy Coalition Inc · Farm Aid Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Western Org of Resource Counc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 450356819 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Western Org of Resource Counc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Western Organization of Resource?

Find your warmest path to Western Organization of Resource through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Organization of Resource?

More from the funding graph

WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Organization of Resource?

More from the funding graph